A Hole In The Theory
Saved By The Bell: mirrors real life perfectly, right? Well, wrong. I know! I thought so, too. I was always under the impression that if you had a problem in your real life, you could just look to an episode of Saved By The Bell, and the solution would be obvious to you. And this may be true--in high school. But this is college, kids. And things are different in college.
Saved By The Bell: The College Years Myths Dispelled By Real Life:
1. College professors are hot. NOT SO. My Anthropology professor looks like Homo erectus himself, and my English professor's beard is at least five inches long.
2. Boys and girls live together in suites. Again, not so. I don't even think any boys go to this school.
3. The dining halls are cozy, clean, and pretty, like restaurants. No. They are clean, but that's about all that can be said by them. And let me tell you, as good as this dining hall food can be, it can also get very, very old.
4. Class only takes up a couple of hours a day. It takes up too much time! Sure, class itself only lasts a few hours but there's always work to be done. Grr.
5. Kids hold fund-raising raves in the Anthropology auditoriums. This is what I was looking forward to most about college, but evidently, they lock the classrooms when they aren't in use, which means, you guessed it: no fund-raising raves. I was distraught.
6. Roommates are quiet. NO they AREN'T. They are the loudest people in the history of people.
So Saved By The Bell is nothing like real life. But it still beats out the "reality" of Felicity and Dawson's Creek. Gilmore Girls, we'll see about tonight.